If I could set up an alarm that would make loud noises whenever anybody with a Y chromosome entered my kitchen... I'd so do it.

(I could always set up an exception, right?)

it's the opposite with me, I won't let anyone in my kitchen

i've always had the opposite experience lol the men around me can cook, i am a hazard unless its baking.

I'm lucky, the only issue with mine is he isn't as good at keeping up with the mess when he cooks. But he cooks pretty well.

anubisdarkwatch, in an ideal world, nobody at all would be allowed into my kitchen.

And he does a decent job cleaning up afterwards.

[But housemates, on the other hand - if I could ban them from my kitchen I so would]

At the moment, however, it's a male roomate doing some whole30-ish thing and spending large amounts of time in the kitchen breaking things.

July cannot get here too soon.

He never spent time in the kitchen before.. not I come back from a run, and shit is broken. And he's in there making messes and breaking things and dropping the dishwasher door...

er, now, not "not"

urgh, I hate having people in my kitchen.

I'm a kitchen control freak.

If I'd never have to be in the kitchen again, I'd be ok with it. My guy does well in the kitchen, too.

Fine, use the microwave, bake your damned frozen pizza, whatever... but don't break the damned drawers, or use stuff and leave it in worse shape than you found it.. or generally leave a footprint.

Kick him out of the kitchen? My problem is, one of my housemates is a kitchen control freak too - but its -my- kitchen in -my- house.

I can't find my food because she likes to arrange hers all in the front. She won't do her own dishes, and if she does, she runs the dishwasher half-full....

The one roomate just goes into the kitchen to put his normal things in the fridge, or make his protein shakes in his own darn blender, that's just fine. But large amounts of time screwing things up? No. Ugh

Usually men are better about staying out of the damned kitchen.

And Kris likes to fine people who are active duty or former military, which generally works out well.. but occasionally, some formerly normal man decides to do a crazy diet that involves fucking up my kitchen

and ahhHHHHHH!!!!

so I guess my problem is that the usual kitchen invaders are male.

But my mother is less trouble in my kitchen than my father. And granted, that's because he's the one who feels "guilty" about me cooking..

(nevermind that he feels fine about snatching a week's worth a some food staple while I'm not looking, after rejecting my offer of lunch..)

Wow. This is not my experience at all.

WhiskeyMonday, I think you've said you're not big on cooking? I'd actually rather cook and clean up than have somebody else mucking around in my kitchen.

If it's just occasional, I'll deal.. but if somebody else is screwing around in my kitchen daily or more, I just start getting so ticked.